Thursday, September 4, 2008
Vote: Stealing Water, or Not
This election is about the future of water. Harper Conservatives will turn water into a commodity so it can be stolen by corporations under the Free Trade Act, then sold back to those who can afford high priced water. Thousands of years of "common law" access to local water, and ancient stranger rights to village wells will be replaced with this Mike Harris-style Lack of Common Sense Bush League water policy. If you think they care about you any more than they do about Iraqi or Afghani civilians then you will be a true believer until you die of thirst in the wilderness of environmental disaster.
Gut-toting Religious Right ready to kill for Jesus
The Love God or Die crowd has once again taken over the Republican Party. One of the vilest forms of Christianity to ever rear its ugly head, the question remains, will the hate mongers take over America in Nov. Hard to understand how a theology based on God is love, can become so small-minded, mean-spirited, stiff-necked & hard hearted. It's like a pre-Christ blood sacrifice cult with a corporate agenda that serves some primal demonic power intent on debasing Christianity & all its tender mercies. The psychopaths are coming. Their friends in Canada are drooling in the wings like orcs. Fallen man indeed.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
For Joe Who written way back when
King Tut and Joe Clark
With Joe retired from politics, the truth can now be told about why his short-lived government fell in 1979. Commentators at the time ignored the evidence I attempted to lay before them then, but the facts are still in my possession. In early December of 1979 when he was still Prime Minister he visited the King Tut exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario. I know because I was a maintenance worker there. A week later, his government fell.
People remember the Mississauga train derailment and poison gas threat that saw the forced evacuation of much of that city. What they don't seem to remember is that it happened the week after the King Tut exhibit passed through the city on its way to Toronto. What befell Mississauga, befell Joe Clark.
Never having been a Tory, I nonetheless became one of the few people I knew who liked Joe Clark. I remember hearing him talk about Canada as a community of communities, and somehow it sounded so much more livable than the ideas of centralized federalism and creeping republicanism. I could envision the creation of a cooperative commonwealth within a community of communities. I didn't agree with the Charlottetown accord, largely because I thought it debased Clark's idea of Canada into a community of provinces, which is not at all the same thing, I think of it bioregionally, watersheds.
The reason I liked Clark however was less abstract than that. I met him him during his visit to the King Tut Exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario. With my broom and long-handled dustpan I could walk into the exhibition area whenever I felt the urge to see the King and study his eyes and then make my way around the long lined milling masses, scooping up the debris they left in their wake.
The day the PM came I was sweeping up in the lobby when he and his entourage came out the exhibit exit. He began signing autographs and his aides and bodyguards were only letting school kids near him. They brushed me aside when I tried to get the Prime Minister to sign the triangle of plastic where the bristles of my broom conjoined. (It was the only thing I had for him to sign.) Joe however said, "Where's the guy with the broom...?" and there I was.
Afterwards I shellacked the signature and created a little card explaining the circumstances. I hope the broom still hangs over the door to the maintenance room in the sub-basement of the AGO.
As I said, while I attribute the fall of Clark's government to the curse of Tut, I'm not so sure I attribute the curse itself to Tut. In those many hours in front of the death mask, all glory of gold and lapis lazuli, the black eyes lucid in the calcite glitter, If there was a curse that traveled with Tut, it was not coming from the death mask. It came from one of the smaller funereal artifacts that sat off in a case in another room of the exhibit, a malignant thing in a room where an older woman ... well, never mind....
With Joe retired from politics, the truth can now be told about why his short-lived government fell in 1979. Commentators at the time ignored the evidence I attempted to lay before them then, but the facts are still in my possession. In early December of 1979 when he was still Prime Minister he visited the King Tut exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario. I know because I was a maintenance worker there. A week later, his government fell.
People remember the Mississauga train derailment and poison gas threat that saw the forced evacuation of much of that city. What they don't seem to remember is that it happened the week after the King Tut exhibit passed through the city on its way to Toronto. What befell Mississauga, befell Joe Clark.
Never having been a Tory, I nonetheless became one of the few people I knew who liked Joe Clark. I remember hearing him talk about Canada as a community of communities, and somehow it sounded so much more livable than the ideas of centralized federalism and creeping republicanism. I could envision the creation of a cooperative commonwealth within a community of communities. I didn't agree with the Charlottetown accord, largely because I thought it debased Clark's idea of Canada into a community of provinces, which is not at all the same thing, I think of it bioregionally, watersheds.
The reason I liked Clark however was less abstract than that. I met him him during his visit to the King Tut Exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario. With my broom and long-handled dustpan I could walk into the exhibition area whenever I felt the urge to see the King and study his eyes and then make my way around the long lined milling masses, scooping up the debris they left in their wake.
The day the PM came I was sweeping up in the lobby when he and his entourage came out the exhibit exit. He began signing autographs and his aides and bodyguards were only letting school kids near him. They brushed me aside when I tried to get the Prime Minister to sign the triangle of plastic where the bristles of my broom conjoined. (It was the only thing I had for him to sign.) Joe however said, "Where's the guy with the broom...?" and there I was.
Afterwards I shellacked the signature and created a little card explaining the circumstances. I hope the broom still hangs over the door to the maintenance room in the sub-basement of the AGO.
As I said, while I attribute the fall of Clark's government to the curse of Tut, I'm not so sure I attribute the curse itself to Tut. In those many hours in front of the death mask, all glory of gold and lapis lazuli, the black eyes lucid in the calcite glitter, If there was a curse that traveled with Tut, it was not coming from the death mask. It came from one of the smaller funereal artifacts that sat off in a case in another room of the exhibit, a malignant thing in a room where an older woman ... well, never mind....
Greens are not Liberals
It just shows you how little modern conservatives understand their own political philosophy to hear them talking about how the Greens are liberals. Greens are conservative because they are communitarian. Even liberals are essentially communitarian these day because they have adopted the community, rather than the individual - which is the basis for true liberal philosophy - as their ideological starting point. The phony libertarian ideology of modern conservativism, from Reagan to Mike Harris, pretends to be about individual rights but is really about corporate rights. Read George S. Grant the great Canadian conservative political philosopher.
Emerson won't stand for office
I guess not. Good riddance to bad rubbish. One of Harper's first week in office soulselling decisions done with. By emmy, enjoy life as the traitor you are.
Joe Lieberman
I don't know, but this guy is k'fecked, he's totally meshuguna, a complete farcical whack job. Gore is somebody, Lieberman is nobody, and never will be.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Constitutional crisis & no one cares
The PM is about to break the law & no one cares. Have Bush\Cheney so debased ethics that the public has become inured to political corruption ? Is this the principled party that Preston Manning gave birth to ? Love him or hate him Preston had a moral code: breaking his own laws for political expediency was not part of his code. The majority of Canadians voted against Harper, he does not, & never has had the support of the people. He passed a law setting the term of parliament to four years. He does not have the support of parliament. He should resign. The GG needs to offer the job to someone else before any election can be called. I must have gotten old. Amoral times.
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